Daniel 4:24

◄Your Majesty/O King►, that is what your dream means. That is what the Supreme God has declared will happen to you.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the most High, which is come upon my lord the king:

In Context

23Then you saw a holy angel coming down from heaven. That angel said, ‘Cut down the tree, and cut off its branches! Strip/Shake off all of its leaves, and scatter its fruit. But leave the stump of the tree and its roots in the ground. Fasten a band of iron and bronze around the stump and allow it to stay there with grass around it. Each morning cause the dew from the sky to make this man, who was represented by the tree, damp. Cause him to live in the fields with the animals for seven years.’

25Your advisors will force you to live away from other people. You will live in the fields with the wild animals. You will eat grass like cows do, and dew from the sky will cause your body to be damp/wet every morning. You will live that way for seven years, until you learn that it is the Supreme God who rules over the kingdoms of the world, and he appoints the ones whom he chooses to rule them.

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Cross References

Job 1:12Yahweh replied to Satan, “◄All right/Okay►, I will permit you to take away everything that he has. But do not harm him.” Then Satan left, and he prepared to cause many disastrous things to happen to Job.

Job 40:11Show that you are very angry; show that you have the right/authority to humble people who are very proud!

Psalms 107:40Yahweh shows contempt for the leaders who oppress them, and causes them to wander in deserts where there are no roads.

Proverbs 16:6Be loyal to Yahweh and faithfully obey him; if you do that, he will forgive you for having sinned. If we revere him, nothing evil will happen to us (OR, he will prevent evil things from happening to us).

Isaiah 14:24The Commander of the armies of angels has also solemnly promised this: “The things that I have planned will surely happen [DOU].

Isaiah 46:10Only I can tell what will happen in the future before it occurs; I tell it long before it happens. I will accomplish everything that I plan to accomplish, and I will do everything that I want to do.

Matthew Henry on Daniel 4:20-28

Nebuchadnezzar's Dream Interpreted. ( b. c. 570.) 19 Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was astonied for one hour, and his thoughts troubled him. The king spake, and said, Belteshazzar, let not the dream, or the interpretation thereof, trouble thee. Belteshazzar answered and said, My lord, the dream be to them that hate thee, and the interpretation thereof to thine enemies. 20 The tree that thou sawest, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached unto the heaven, and the sight thereof to all the earth;… Read the whole commentary →

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